Energy Thinks with Tisha Schuller
tishaschuller.substack.com
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Arc of Outrage: The Risk Is Local. The Benefits Aren’t. (opens the original)
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Today, the Arc of Outrage series returns to the forgotten stakeholder in energy infrastructure projects: the future. Evoking the future offers your best bridge to solutions with today’s skeptical communities. What you’ll get in this solo episode of Energy Thinks I have put a lot of Arc of Outrage content out there—from all the ways everything we do is making it worse to why we need to bring the future into the room . You have plenty to work on, and you do not need me to repeat it. But one idea k
The Arc of Outrage: Why YIMBY + FOMO Is Your New Formula (opens the original)
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What you’ll get in this episode of Energy Thinks Humans across history have built networks that provide water, energy, food, transportation, and information—the infrastructure that makes modern life possible! Jim Connaughton, an energy, environment, and technology expert (and the former chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality under George W. Bush), believes we are at the beginning of the next one: an Arc of Enrichment. In the last two installments of the Arc of Outrage series,
Arc of Outrage: Who Speaks for the Future? (opens the original)
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Today, the Arc of Outrage series turns to the forgotten stakeholder in energy infrastructure projects: the future. Evoking the future offers your best bridge to solutions with today’s skeptical communities. What you’ll get in this solo episode of Energy Thinks Your next infrastructure project has a stakeholder who will never attend a public hearing: the future. I have argued that the future has the right of way —and that choosing not to build carries costs of its own. In this episode, I take on
Arc of Outrage: The Cost of a No-Build Future (opens the original)
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Today, the Arc of Outrage series asks the uncomfortable question: If we demand that energy infrastructure proponents account for the future that they would build, shouldn’t energy infrastructure opponents also account for the future that would result from not building ? What you’ll get in this solo episode of Energy Thinks When it comes to energy and the future, there is no do-nothing option. Doing nothing is, in fact, doing something—and that something needs to be called out. It’s nonnegotiable
Boardwalk’s Scott Hallam on Lessons from a Past Arc of Outrage (opens the original)
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What you’ll get in this episode of Energy Thinks The future requires massive infrastructure build-out. But communities have made it clear: They will not accept infrastructure that feels imposed. That tension in a nutshell—aka Both of These Things Are True: * We need to build. * People need agency over what gets built around them. You know I’ve been writing about the Arc of Outrage : the predictable cycle of public opposition that comes for major infrastructure projects. Right now, the Arc is ris
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